new gold dream // super 8 sunshine

my contribution to Annuale 2012 Record Store exhibition curated by Chris Biddlecombe and Janie Nicoll. The installation is the result of a collaborative project involving the creation of twenty four record cover artworks by a wide range of Scottish artists each whom have a strong interest in or connection to music making in their art practice. Check out the exhibition at avalanche records in edinburgh’s grassmarket.

the glittering prize

12” Double ‘b’ side- limited release.

super 8 sunshine // new gold dream (cover version)

the glittering prize. the band are electronic. they are of now and the 1980s. they deal in memory, loss and the often futile ways we try to cope when the hero dies half way through the story.

i use music to access the emotional channels that my analytical mind otherwise wont allow when I’m making work. i will listen to a single album dozens of times when producing new work often focusing on a single song on constant repeat for many hundreds of plays as the project climaxes. music and sound always inform the content that sits aside of the narrative element in my work. often music becomes the focus of the geometry and composition as well as the emotion texture. without music there would be no work

super 8 sunshine is my prose piece based on the icarus myth and childhood memories. 

simple minds were the first band I saw live. new gold dream was the album and the tour.

i did a lot of very bad bad jim kerr dancing totally fucked in the early eighties.


Record Store Exhibition @ Avalanche from SUMMERHALL TV on Vimeo.